Trauma and Lived Religion: Transcending the Ordinary

This book focuses on the power of the ‘ordinary’, ‘everydayness’ and ‘embodiment’ as keys to exploring the intersection of trauma and the everyday reality of religion. It critically investigates traumatic experiences from a perspective of lived religion, and therefore, examines how trauma is articulated and lived in the foreground of people’s concrete, material actualities.

Trauma and Lived Religion seeks to demonstrate the vital relevance between the concept of lived religion and the study...